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[[File:Kim_Ross_5.jpg|frame|Kimiko.]]
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'''Kimiko''': ''I have reservations about reconciling a quantum mechanics thought experiment with Egyptian mythology. More importantly, what possible threat could superpositioned cats pose?''
▲{{quote| '''Sokar''': ''I have issues with the Schrödinger's cat experiment. [...] In the period before observing the outcome, [the cat] is said to be in "superposition," a state of both decay and not decay, meaning [it] is both dead and not dead. Observer-dependent physics undermines the gods' decision three thousand years ago to ban cats from straddling the borders of the Netherworld. We won't have it!'' <br />
▲'''Kimiko''': ''I have reservations about reconciling a quantum mechanics thought experiment with Egyptian mythology. More importantly, what possible threat could superpositioned cats pose?'' <br />
'''Sokar''': ''Somewhere, Niels Bohr walks among us, unobserved and '''immortal'''''. }}
'''''[http://dresdencodak.com/ Dresden Codak]''''' is a
''Dresden Codak'' is a sometimes [[Dada Comics|Dada]], sometimes [[Mind Screw]] comic focusing on the (mis)adventures of several often unrelated characters:
* Kimiko "Thunderbolt" Ross: A misanthropic, cybernetically-enhanced [[Mad Scientist]].
* Tiny Carl Jung: [[Exactly What It Says
* Dmitri and Alina Tokamak: A parody of the Wonder Twins and Marvel Family. They also have [[Wonder Twin Powers|similar powers]], except rather than using transformation and...water... they use physics.
* "D.H." Ron Awning: A caricature of the literary-minded artsy intellectual.
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* Rupert and Hubert: Two elderly Victorian scientists who live in a castle they built on the moon.
Not to be confused with ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' or the city of Dresden, though its name is a reference to the [[Mayincatec|Dresden Codex]].
The comic also has a number of similarly surreal one-shots, including the page that we adapted into the [[Essential Third Act Twists]].
Updates irregularly.
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* [[All of Them]]: As seen at the end of [http://dresdencodak.com/2012/02/15/dark-science-16/ this strip]
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Kim's dad (Kaito Kusanagi) and Kim herself as a child, before she had her surname changed.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Kimiko knew that a group of people were time travelers because they were dressed in a mismash of styles from all eras and segments of the 20th century, in a similar fashion to how other centuries are portrayed in modern media.
* [[Arc Symbol]]: the "rising sun" half-circle.
* [[Art Evolution]]: The art quality increases immensely as the comic progressed. For full effect, compare [http://dresdencodak.com/2005/06/08/the-tomorrow-man/ this first strip] to [http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ this more recent strip] and [http://dresdencodak.com/2010/07/10/dark-science-03/ this even more recent strip]. The art is actually starting to get kind of ridiculously detailed. Perhaps not coincidentally, author
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Kimiko, post-Hob.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Among Diaz's four majors was Anthropology. It shows.
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* [[Big Eater]]: Kimiko's prostheses run on [http://dresdencodak.com/2012/02/15/dark-science-16/ glucose] , which requires her to eat huge amounts of sweet stuff.
* [[Book Dumb]]: Kimiko got very poor grades in school. According to [[Word of God]], this is because she generally [[Brilliant but Lazy|didn't bother]] to do her schoolwork in the first place.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The comic started out as lighthearted and whimsical. Characters talked to Egyptian gods, Niels Bohr is apparently a cat, and everybody was all happy-happy-joy-joy-let's-go-to-the-moon-and/or-play-tabletop-RPGs. Then [https://web.archive.org/web/20131220215013/http://www.dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_045.html this] came along. And then [https://web.archive.org/web/20130808104454/http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_059.html this], which seems to swing right back to comedy again.
* [[Changed My Jumper]]: The time travelers in the Hob storyline who look like mashups of several pop culture characters.
* [[Character Blog]]: Kimiko, D.H. Ron, and Tiny Carl Jung have their own Twitter accounts.
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** Considering that Diaz is an avowed transhumanist, it's pretty clear that the comic is a complete aversion.
*** If anything she's ''more'' human now.
** By the middle of the "Dark Science" arc, Kimiko has gone total-conversion, leaving only her brain organic. [http://dresdencodak.com/2018/05/13/cyborg-time-with-kimiko-ross/ Cyborg Time With Kimiko Ross] has the details.
* [[Deep-Immersion Gaming]]: Whenever the characters engage in a tabletop roleplaying session.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Kimiko's father who was always away doing his job.
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* [[Floating Continent]]: Nephilopolis
* [[For Science!]]: Kimiko's entire purpose in life.
* [[Fun
* [[Future Imperfect]]: See the [[Changed My Jumper]] point above.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Kimiko.
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** [[Viewers Are Geniuses|Alternate]] [[Shown Their Work|prehistory]] [http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ fan fiction] involving her [[Wish Fulfillment|making out with the T.A. from her physics class]].
* [[Hotblooded Sideburns]]: Kaito Kusanagi
* [[Humans Are Psychic in
* [[Infinite Canvas]]
* [[In Name Only]]: Ronnie's "adaptations." Kimiko sponsors them in order to harvest the energy of their original creators spinning in their graves.
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** Kimiko, sometimes.
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]
* [[Network Decay]]: Highlighted in-universe in [https://web.archive.org/web/20111230204827/http://dresdencodak.com/2010/12/15/spike-guest-comic/ "Spike's Guest Comic"]
* [[New First Comics]]
* [[Noodle Incident]]: [http://dresdencodak.com/2008/10/02/epilogue-2/ "Remember when Reverse Moses parted the city to escape Aqua-Pharaoh?"]
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* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Kaito Kusanagi.
* [[Schedule Slip]]: It has a schedule? (New comics show up basically at random, with time gaps varying from a week to two or three ''months''.)
**
* [[Science Is Bad]]: Parodied and taken to extremes in [http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/ "Caveman Science Fiction".]
** A similar parody of this trope appears in the lengthy comment under [http://dresdencodak.com/2007/09/04/an-exotic-matter/ this comic.]
* [[Series Hiatus]]: See [[Schedule Slip]].
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: [http://dresdencodak.com/2009/12/16/lantern-season/ Lantern Season]
* [[Shout-Out]]: Kimiko "[[Incredible Hulk
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120131002249/http://dresdencodak.com/2010/12/16/kc-guest-comic/ This guest strip] has references to ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'', ''[[Battlefield Earth]]'', ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', and ''[[Snow Crash]]''. Wait... [[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff|what did that first one say about stairs?]]
** The stuffed animals near the beginning of [http://dresdencodak.com/2009/12/16/lantern-season/ this] comic include Beartato and Reginald from [[Nedroid]].
** [http://dresdencodak.com/2012/03/09/dark-science-17/ Caspar] is clearly a stand-in for [[Ayn Rand]], considering her books titled [[The Fountainhead|"Wellspring"]] and [[Atlas Shrugged
* [[The Singularity]]: Kimiko mentions it a few times in the comic. She (and the author) ''are'' futurists, after all.
** {{spoiler|In addition, the time travelers are refugees from an alternate timeline where this almost happened, but they rebelled and killed off anyone beyond baseline human intelligence,}} and {{spoiler|the series climax involves a second, small scale one causing a [[Deus Exit Machina]].}}
** [http://dresdencodak.com/2007/12/01/live-forever-or-die-trying/ This page] references [[Princess Mononoke]].
** The time colonists were a parody of the primary crew of [[Star Trek:
* [[Space Amish]]: The time travelers in the Hob arc {{spoiler|destroyed future Earth because they believed post-singularity technology had taken all meaning from their lives, and they planned to colonize the past Earth and live like us "noble savages"}}
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|"This seems excessive on the bank's part."]] With a [[Plunger Detonator]], too.
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* [[Teen Genius]]: Kimiko. Who has entered her early twenties (it says so on the cast page!), but continues to fit in the looser sense of being young, brilliant, and angsty.
* [[Terminally Dependent Society]]
* [[Toilet Seat Divorce]]: Despite all she'd put them through up to that point, it was apparently Kimiko ''scientifically proving that blue was the best color'' that made her last few friends ditch her.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: the Dark Kantian in [http://dresdencodak.com/2009/01/27/advanced-dungeons-and-discourse/ this one]. He is compelled to do evil, regardless of its utility.
* [[Transhuman]]: See [[The Singularity]] above.
* [[Truth in Television]]: [http://dresdencodak.com/2006/10/22/phantoms-of-a-lost-muse/ Phantoms of a Lost Muse] is based on the premise that people contribute small parts towards a greater work. Similarly, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100330062505/http://www.westendshowslondon.com/news/91129royal-opera-house-is-all-of-a-twitter/ the Royal Opera house is planning to show an opera written by Twitter contributors].
* [[Unusual User Interface]]: Kimiko has a interface jack in her upper back post-Hob.
* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]:
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